How can I create one animation which always translates from left to right and then if animation stops it turns the other way and translates from right to left. I can create Translate animation in xml and programatically too.
Create this xml, it will translate from left to right and from right to left.
/res/anim/translate.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:fillEnabled="true"
android:fillAfter="true" >
<translate
android:interpolator="#android:anim/linear_interpolator"
android:fromXDelta="0%p"
android:toXDelta="10%p"
android:duration="2000"
android:startOffset="0" />
<translate
android:interpolator="#android:anim/linear_interpolator"
android:fromXDelta="10%p"
android:toXDelta="-10%p"
android:duration="2000"
android:startOffset="2000" />
</set>
Suppose you want to apply this animation to an image then write the code below in your class file.
ImageView image = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
Animation animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getApplicationContext(), R.anim.translate);
image.startAnimation(animation);
Edit:
If you want your animation to repeat infinitely add the following attributes to the translate tag.
android:repeatCount="infinite"
android:repeatMode="restart"
Depends on your min API level actually. Essentially You should look at ViewPropertyAnimator class.
Let's say you have view to animate, and parent - parent of this view. Your code would look like this:
final float startX = 0; //start position
final float endX = parent.getWidth() - view.getWidth(); //end position - right edge of the parent
API 12+:
view.animate().translationX(endX).setListener(new AnimatorListenerAdapter() {
#Override
public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
view.animate().translationX(startX).start();
}
}).start();
API 16+:
view.animate().translationX(endX).withEndAction(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
view.animate().translationX(startX).start();
}
}).start();
Your startX and endX might be different - depending on your needs.
Please note that start() method call is optional.
Also I have not mentioned solution for API <12 since I personally think that nobody should support those legacy APIs :)
recently I wrote a function.it's about a refresh button in each list item. what I want is click the button or List Item, the refresh button starts rotate. stops when the request finished.
I use animation as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:duration="1000"
android:fillAfter="true"
android:fromDegrees="0"
android:interpolator="#android:anim/linear_interpolator"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:repeatCount="infinite"
android:toDegrees="358" />
and some source code are here:
public void refresh(View v) {
Animation rotation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(mContext,
R.anim.rotate);
rotation.setFillAfter(true);
v.startAnimation(rotation);
}
public void completeRefresh(View v) {
v.clearAnimation();
}
when the request finished, I call notifyDataSetChanged() to refresh the LiseView.
the problem is that the button was indeed rotating. but when I click it the second time. it's rotating but a little fuzzy. just like this:
any suggestions? thanks a lot.
What is most likely happening on your second (and subsequent clicks) is that the animation is running on it again.
In your current implementation, try using setTag(...) like this:
public void refresh(View v) {
if(v.getTag() != null && (boolean)v.getTag()) {
//do nothing, since we are setting the tag to be true once pressed
} else {
//this view hasn't been clicked yet, show animation and set tag
v.setTag(true);
Animation rotation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(mContext, R.anim.rotate);
rotation.setFillAfter(true);
v.startAnimation(rotation);
}
}
In your Adapter, you should keep track of which list items are being animated (I'm assuming multiple items can be clicked at the same time). Once you know that the 'request' is finished, you can update the adapter with the correct items and then call notifyDataSetChanged()
I have a simple .xml layout file that has a simple ImageView, that I want to switch images on. I decided to go ahead and do it with FrameAnimations, using the AnimationDrawable API.
I have managed to create my animation file in "drawable/file.xml", here is the code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:oneshot="false">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/image_010_1" android:duration="1000" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/image_010_2" android:duration="1000" />
</animation-list>
Now, Here is the code that should start my animation:
Image1.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.image_010);
AnimationDrawable animation = (AnimationDrawable) Image1.getBackground();
animation.start();
For some reason, When i run the app I just see the first frame, and the next image does not come after 1000 milis, or at all! What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
so I managed to solve this problem by adding a Runnable to my ImageView:
image.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
animation.start();
}
});
In my android project I have an image that i want to rotate it and create animation for long time.
I can run program and it works fine. but I don't know how can I stop it. if you know please tell me.
Thanks
This is my code, I have a menu with two items, When I click on Start item, startAnimation function runs and when I click on Stop item, stopAnimation runs.:
public class Hypnagogic extends Activity
{
ImageView imView;
Animation an;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
imView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imView);
}
private void startAnimation()
{
an = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.spin);
imView.startAnimation(an);
}
private void stopAnimation()
{
;//there is no any stop function!
}
}
also, in res/anim I put spin.xml that is my animation
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set>
<rotate
android:fromDegrees="0"
android:toDegrees="-18000"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:duration="50000" />
</set>
EDIT: I see. Okay, try the clearAnimation() method associated with the View class. You can call it directly on your ImageView, I'm almost certain this should work for your case:
imView.clearAnimation();
What have you tried? AnimationDrawable has a stop() method. You need to post how you're creating/starting the animation.
I'm trying to make simple animation that would repeat several times (or infinitely).
It seems that android:repeatCount does not work!
Here is my animation resource from /res/anim/first_animation.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shareInterpolator="false"
android:repeatCount="infinite"
>
<scale
android:interpolator="#android:anim/decelerate_interpolator"
android:duration="500"
android:fromXScale="1.0"
android:fromYScale="1.0"
android:toXScale="1.2"
android:toYScale="1.2"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:fillAfter="false" />
<scale
android:interpolator="#android:anim/accelerate_interpolator"
android:startOffset="500"
android:duration="500"
android:fromXScale="1.2"
android:fromYScale="1.2"
android:toXScale="1.0"
android:toYScale="1.0"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:fillAfter="false" />
</set>
First it should scale image from 1.0 to 1.2 size in 500 ms.
And then scale it back to 1.0 in 500 ms.
Here is how I'm using it:
Animation firstAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.first_animation);
imgView.startAnimation(firstAnimation);
It makes one cycle and then finishes.
It scales up, then scales down ans then stops.
How can I make this work as intended?
Update: Back in Sep, 2011 an Android engineer fixed this issue for the most part. The attributes that were ignored in XML now work, with the exception of repeatCount and fillEnabled which are still ignored (on purpose for some reason). This means it still isn't easy to repeat an AnimationSet unfortunately.
For details please see the overview in the updated docs (explains which attributes are ignored, which work, and which are passed onto children). And for a deeper understanding of what fillAfter, fillBefore, and fillEnabled actually do, see the engineer's (Chet Haase) blog post about it here.
Original Answer
To expand upon answers by Pavel and others: it is true that the <set> tag is ridiculously buggy. It can't deal correctly with repeatCount and a number of other attributes.
I spent a few hours figuring out what it can and can't deal with and have submitted a bug report/issue here: Issue 17662
In summary (this concerns AnimationSets):
setRepeatCount() / android:repeatCount
This attribute (as well as repeatMode) does not work in code or XML. This makes repeating an entire set of animations difficult.
setDuration() / android:duration
Setting this on an AnimationSet in code WORKS (overrides all durations of children animations), but not when included in the tag in XML
setFillAfter() / android:fillAfter
This works in both code and XML for the tag. Strangely I have gotten it to also work without the need to set fillEnabled to true.
setFillBefore() / android:fillBefore
Seems to have no effect/ignored in both code and XML
setFillEnabled() / android:fillEnabled
Seems to have no effect/ignored in both code and XML. I can still get fillAfter to work even without including fillEnabled or setting fillEnabled to false.
setStartOffset() / android:startOffset
This works only in code and not XML.
I've found that <set> tag has buggy implementation in class AnimationSet.
It can't deal correctly with repeatCount.
What we can do - is to set repeatCount directly in <scale> tag.
This XML resource is working well:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<scale
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:interpolator="#android:anim/accelerate_decelerate_interpolator"
android:duration="200"
android:fromXScale="1.0"
android:fromYScale="1.0"
android:toXScale="1.05"
android:toYScale="1.05"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:repeatMode="reverse"
android:fillAfter="false"
android:repeatCount="24"
/>
Unfortunately, this is limited to only one animation at once.
We can not define a sequence of animations this way...
You should include the attribute
android:repeatCount="infinite"
But in your "scale" animation not in "set"
To get a repeating animation I utilized the animation listener, and called the animation again when it ended. This does a camera reticule focusing like animation with brackets.
Here is the animation layout xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<scale
android:fromXScale="1.0"
android:toXScale=".7"
android:fromYScale="1.0"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:toYScale=".7"
android:duration="1000"/>
<scale
android:duration="1000"
android:fromXScale=".7"
android:toXScale="1.0"
android:fromYScale=".7"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:toYScale="1.0"
android:startOffset="1000"/>
</set>
Here is the java code
public void startAnimation() {
View brackets = findViewById(R.id.brackets);
brackets.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
Animation anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(BuzzFinderActivity.this, R.anim.crosshair_focusing);
anim.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {
#Override
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation arg0) {
Animation anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(BuzzFinderActivity.this, R.anim.crosshair_focusing);
anim.setAnimationListener(this);
brackets.startAnimation(anim);
}
#Override
public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void onAnimationStart(Animation arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});
brackets.startAnimation(anim);
}
I was also facing the same problem..
i included android:repeatCount="infinite" in XMl file..now its working fine...
<translate
android:fromXDelta="0"
android:toXDelta="80"
android:duration="1000"
android:repeatCount="infinite"
android:repeatMode="reverse"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:fillAfter="true"/>
you can try this code.
In your code just add,
firstAnimation.setRepeatCount(5);
This will repeat the animation for a definite time
firstAnimation.setRepeatCount(Animation.INFINITE);
firstAnimation.setRepeatMode(Animation.INFINITE);
This will repeat the animation indefinitely.
I tried to use Daniel's code to show animation exact number of times and had a problem: animation was shown approximatily n / 2 times, when n times expected.
So I have modified Daniel's code:
//...
#Override
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation arg0) {
mCurrentCount++;
if (mCurrentCount < REPEAT_COUNT) {
Animation anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(BuzzFinderActivity.this, R.anim.crosshair_focusing);
anim.setAnimationListener(this);
brackets.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
brackets.startAnimation(anim);
}
}
}
}
//...
Using variant, shown above, animation is shown exectly REPEAT_COUNT times, because View.post() method gives an ability to start new animation after finishing all actions, related with previous animation.
you have to add just one line in your xml code that i suggested below .
<scale
android:duration="500"
android:fromXScale="1.0"
android:fromYScale="1.0"
android:toXScale="1.2"
android:toYScale="1.2"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:repeatCount="infinite" // just add this one line
android:fillAfter="false"
/>
</set>
I solved this problem using android:repeatMode="reverse" before in my project.
<scale
android:interpolator="#android:anim/decelerate_interpolator"
android:duration="500"
android:fromXScale="1.0"
android:fromYScale="1.0"
android:toXScale="1.2"
android:toYScale="1.2"
android:pivotX="50%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:repeatMode="reverse"
android:repeatCount="infinite" />
With android sdk version 4.0.3:
In the given animation elements:
android:repeatCount="-1"
makes it an infinite animation.
Add the following class to your project:
import android.view.View;
import android.view.animation.Animation;
public class AnimationRepeater implements Animation.AnimationListener
{
private View view;
private Animation animation;
private int count;
public AnimationRepeater(View view, Animation animation)
{
this.view = view;
this.animation = animation;
this.count = -1;
}
public AnimationRepeater(View view, Animation animation, int count)
{
this.view = view;
this.animation = animation;
this.count = count;
}
public void start()
{
this.view.startAnimation(this.animation);
this.animation.setAnimationListener(this);
}
#Override
public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) { }
#Override
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation)
{
if (this.count == -1)
this.view.startAnimation(animation);
else
{
if (count - 1 >= 0)
{
this.animation.start();
count --;
}
}
}
#Override
public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) { }
}
For infinite loop of your view, do the following:
Animation a = AnimationUtils(Context, R.anim.animation);
new AnimationRepeater(View, a).start();
If you want to repeat the animation for N-times only, do the following:
Animation a = AnimationUtils(Context, R.anim.animation);
new AnimationRepeater(View, a, int N).start();
N stands for number of repetitions.
I do most of my stuff programmatically and I may be late or inefficient on this one but this but I completed the repeat animationset goal (I a even have 2 alternating animation sets). All this code does is simply fade in one image,pause, then fade out, fade in another image, pause, fade out, and bring back the first one (rinse and repeat). I first defined my Imageviews:
final ImageView purple = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.purp);
final ImageView yellow = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.yell);
purple.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
yellow.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
Then I made two timers, task timers and handlers to deal with when to start and stop each animation:
Timer p = new Timer();
TimerTask pu = new TimerTask() {
public void run() {
handler1.post(new Runnable() {
public void run()
{
fadein(purple);
}
});
}};
p.schedule(pu, 6000, 12000);
final Handler handler2 = new Handler();
Timer y = new Timer();
TimerTask ye = new TimerTask() {
public void run() {
handler2.post(new Runnable() {
public void run()
{
fadein(yellow);
}
});
}};
y.schedule(ye, 0, 12000);
Finally, rather than creating animation sets by adding animations, I just animations listeners to to determine when to start each animation:
public void fadein (final ImageView image)
{
Animation anim = new AlphaAnimation(0, 1);
anim.setDuration(2000);
image.startAnimation(anim);
anim.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation)
{
image.clearAnimation();
image.invalidate();
pause(image);
}
#Override
public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});
}
public void pause (final ImageView image)
{
Animation anim = new AlphaAnimation(1, 1);
anim.setDuration(2000);
image.startAnimation(anim);
anim.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation)
{
image.clearAnimation();
image.invalidate();
fadeout(image);
}
#Override
public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});
}
public void fadeout (final ImageView image)
{
Animation anim = new AlphaAnimation(1,0);
anim.setDuration(2000);
image.startAnimation(anim);
anim.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation)
{
image.clearAnimation();
image.invalidate();
}
#Override
public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});
}
The clearanimation and invalidate where just previous attempts and getting this thing to work right. I don't know if they are required or not.
Hope this helps someone.
Ryan
i got this to go ...i was trying to get a view to rotate in a circle continuously .
previous i was using rotation.setRepeatMode(-1) but that didn't work. switched to setrepeatcount and it works. This is on jelly bean 4.2.2
ObjectAnimator rotation = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(myview,
"rotation", 360).setDuration(2000);
rotation.setRepeatMode(-1);
rotation.setRepeatCount(Animation.INFINITE);
rotation.start();
I've faced the same problem, but didn't want to do any timing things in Java because of the point that the UI thread may be very busy sometimes.
The INFINITE flag doesn't work for the set tag. So I resolved the issue with a little piece of code:
mAnimation = (AnimationSet) AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(myContext, R.anim.blink);
mIcon.startAnimation(mAnimation);
mAnimation.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {
public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {}
public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {}
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
mIcon.startAnimation(mAnimation);
}
});
with the following XML:
<alpha
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:duration="1000"
android:fromAlpha="0.0"
android:toAlpha="1.0" />
<alpha
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:duration="1000"
android:fromAlpha="0.9"
android:startOffset="1000"
android:toAlpha="0.0" />
Where mIcon is an ImageView from my layout.
I've solved this problem. This is my version of the fix:
public class HelloAndroidActivity extends Activity {
private static String TAG = "animTest";
private Animation scaleAnimation;
private int currentCover = 0;
private List<ImageView> imageViews = new ArrayList<ImageView>(3);
private Button btn;
private ImageView img;
/**
* Called when the activity is first created.
* #param savedInstanceState If the activity is being re-initialized after
* previously being shut down then this Bundle contains the data it most
* recently supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle). <b>Note: Otherwise it is null.</b>
*/
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
Log.i(TAG, "onCreate");
setContentView(R.layout.test);
img = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.testpict);
imageViews.add(img);
img = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.testpictTwo);
imageViews.add(img);
img = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.testpict3);
imageViews.add(img);
scaleAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.photo_scale);
scaleAnimation.setAnimationListener(new CyclicAnimationListener());
btn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.startBtn);
btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
imageViews.get(0).startAnimation(scaleAnimation);
}
});
}
private class CyclicAnimationListener implements AnimationListener{
#Override
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
currentCover += 1;
if(currentCover >= imageViews.size()){
currentCover = 0;
}
img = imageViews.get(currentCover);
scaleAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(HelloAndroidActivity.this, R.anim.photo_scale);
scaleAnimation.setAnimationListener(new CyclicAnimationListener());
img.startAnimation(scaleAnimation);
}
#Override
public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
Log.d("Animation", "Repeat");
}
#Override
public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
}
}
}
i just came across this issue while working on a backwards compatible app. so frustrating! i ended up coding a nice workaround class that can be called from onCreate and will kickoff any animation resource into an indefinite loop.
the class, AnimationLooper, is available here:
https://gist.github.com/2018678
After researching through the answers from internet, I found a solutions which works perfectly for me. (And yes, the repeatCount and repeatMode is extremely buggy when used together with animationSet).
anim_rotate_fade.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:interpolator="#android:anim/accelerate_decelerate_interpolator"
android:ordering="together" >
<objectAnimator
android:duration="3000"
android:propertyName="rotation"
android:repeatCount="1"
android:valueTo="360"
android:valueType="floatType" />
<objectAnimator
android:duration="3000"
android:propertyName="alpha"
android:repeatCount="1"
android:repeatMode="reverse"
android:valueFrom="0.0"
android:valueTo="0.3"
android:valueType="floatType" />
<objectAnimator
android:duration="3000"
android:propertyName="y"
android:repeatCount="1"
android:repeatMode="reverse"
android:valueFrom="380"
android:valueTo="430"
android:valueType="floatType" />
</set>
In activity:
(Solve it by introducing a slight delay after animation ended).
ImageView starlightImageView = new ImageView(this);
starlightImageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.starlight);
final AnimatorSet animate = (AnimatorSet) AnimatorInflater.loadAnimator(this, R.anim.anim_rotate_fade);
AnimatorListenerAdapter animatorListener = new AnimatorListenerAdapter() {
#Override
public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
super.onAnimationEnd(animation);
new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
#Override public void run() {
animate.start();
}
}, 1000);
}
};
animate.setTarget(starlightImageView);
animate.addListener(animatorListener);
There are a lot of classes you would like to research on, but currently I'm using objectAnimator which is highly flexible. I wouldn't recommend to use Animation or AnimationUtils:
Animation
AnimationUtils
Animator
AnimatorInflater
AnimatorListener
AnimatorListenerAdapter
One need to listen for completion of first animation then re-start the animation in onStopAnimation call back, give a try to this link
Little tweak to #Danufr answer to save resources from loading again.
operator = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.operator_loading);
final Animation ani = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getApplicationContext(),R.anim.finding_operator);
ani.setAnimationListener(new Animation.AnimationListener() {
#Override
public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
}
#Override
public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
operator.startAnimation(ani);
}
#Override
public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
}
});
operator.setAnimation(ani);
I solved this problem using thread.
Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonpush);
final TextView textview = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.hello);
btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
textview.setText("...................");
final Animation animationtest = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(MainActivity.this, android.R.anim.slide_in_left);
animationtest.setDuration(1000);
final Handler handler = new Handler();
Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
handler.postDelayed(this, 1500);
textview.startAnimation(animationtest);
}
};
handler.postDelayed(runnable, 500); // start
handler.removeCallbacks(runnable); //STOP Timer
}
});
it's working fine
GifDrawable gifDrawable = (GifDrawable) gifImageView.getDrawable();
gifDrawable.setLoopCount(0);
None of the above solutions worked in my case. The solution by Danuofr did work for animation set but when I was doing unit testing, my tests used to get stuck in this infinite loop. Finally, specific to my case, I needed to repeat this animation specific number of times. So, I manually added copies of my animation in anim_rot.xml in a cascaded manner adding the offset value. I know it's bad and won't work for many but it was the only workaround for my case.
anim_rot.xml
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<rotate
android:duration="2000"
android:fromDegrees="20"
android:pivotX="29%"
android:pivotY="50%"
android:toDegrees="-20" />
<rotate
android:duration="2000"
android:fromDegrees="-20"
android:pivotX="29%"
android:pivotY="53%"
android:startOffset="2000"
android:toDegrees="20" />
<rotate
android:startOffset="4000"
android:duration="2000"
android:fromDegrees="20"
android:pivotX="29%"
android:pivotY="56%"
android:toDegrees="-20" />
<rotate
android:duration="2000"
android:fromDegrees="-20"
android:pivotX="29%"
android:pivotY="59%"
android:startOffset="6000"
android:toDegrees="20" />
<rotate
android:startOffset="8000"
android:duration="2000"
android:fromDegrees="20"
android:pivotX="29%"
android:pivotY="62%"
android:toDegrees="-20" />
<rotate
android:duration="2000"
android:fromDegrees="-20"
android:pivotX="29%"
android:pivotY="65%"
android:startOffset="10000"
android:toDegrees="20" />
</set>
I did this to repeat the animation 3 times. You can add more copies to repeat it specific times by adding offset values.
Try to add the code to a looping thread or a while/for statement